INVITED SPEAKERS

Approximately twenty speakers have been invited (and have accepted) to give 40 minute talks. Please see the 'invited speaker' list below.

CONTRIBUTED LECTURES

Approximately ten lectures at ISOM will consist of contributions from attendees. These lectures will be shorter than invited talks and will be chosen from abstracts submitted for that purpose. Up to approximately six outstanding poster contributions also will be chosen for oral presentation. Those who are presenting posters and wish to present their work orally should also submit a second abstract for that purpose. Oral presentations of posters will be chosen at the beginning of the conference. A list of these speakers follows the Invited Speaker list.

INVITED SPEAKERS

The following speakers have agreed to talk at ISOM XIV:

Jean-Marie Basset Laboratoire de Chimie Organometallique de Surface
New silica supported catalysts for alkane and olefin metathesis
John Bercaw California Institute of Technology
Stereocontrol and Kinetic Resolution of Racemic alpha-Olefins with Metallocene Polymerization Catalysts
Maurice Brookhart University of North Carolina
Olefin Polymerizations Using Late Transition Metal Catalysts
Michael R. Buchmeiser University of Innsbruck
What Metathesis Can do for Heterogeneous Catalysis and Life Sciences
Uwe Bunz University of South Carolina
Alkyne Metathesis with Simple Catalyst Systems. Scope, Limitations, and Applications
Kit Cummins Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Molybdenum Amides as Precursors to Alkyne Metathesis Catalysts
W. James Feast University of Durham
Functional Water-Soluble Polymers via ROMP; Synthesis and Uses
Robert H. Grubbs California Institute of Technology
Olefin Metathesis by Ruthenium Complexes
Amir H. Hoveyda Boston College
Efficient Enantioselective Mo-Catalyzed Metathesis Reactions and Applications in Organic Synthesis
Thomas R. Hoye University of Minnesota
Metathesis Problems (and Some Solutions) Identified Through Natural Product Synthesis
Ezat Khosravi University of Durham
Well-defined cross-linked materials via Resin Transfer Moulding (RTM)-ROMP
Toshio Masuda Kyoto University
Synthesis and Properties of Chiral Substituted Polyacetylenes
Steve Nolan University of New Orleans
Use of Nucleophilic Carbenes in Homogeneous Catalysis
Jun Okuda Johannes Gutenberg-Universität
Non-Metallocene Polymerization Catalysts Based on Rare Earth Metals
Richard R. Schrock Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Development of Group IV Catalysts that Contain a Diamido/Donor Ligand for the Living Polymerization of Ordinary Olefins

Susannah Scott University of Ottawa
Reactions of Silica-supported Alkylidenes, including Initiation of Olefin Polymerization
Lawrence R. Sita University of Maryland
Mechanistic and Materialistic Aspects of Living Ziegler-Natta Polymerization by Amidinate-based Catalysts
Franz Stelzer University of Graz
Synthesis of New Materials via ROMP
Emma Thorn-Csanyi University of Hamburg
Applications of olefin metathesis that only became possible by applying Schrock-type alkylidene complexes
Gerard van Koten University of Utrecht
Large Ring Compounds via RCM using Nano-sized Organometallic Compounds as Templates
Ken Wagener University of Florida
Functional Polymers Via ADMET Chemistry

CONTRIBUTED LECTURES

The following is a list of contributed lectures that will be amended as more lectures are accepted:

Stephen J. McLain E. I. duPont de Nemours
Addition Polymerization of Cyclopentene by Chiral Nickel and Palladium Catalysts - Demonstration of Enantiomorphic Site Control with C1 and C2 Symmetric Alpha-diimine Ligands
Moshe Kol Tel Aviv University
From Oligomerization to Living Isotactic Polymerization. Modification of Amine-Phenolate Ligand Structure Varies Catalyst Performance.
Deryn E. Fogg University of Ottawa
New Ligand Frameworks in Ru Metathesis Catalysis
Bogdan Marciniec Adam Mickiewicz University
Cross-metathesis of Functionalized Olefins, Cycloolefins and Dienes with Vinyltrialkoxysilanes Catalyzed by Ruthenium Carbenes